Taco Chili Soup

This past weekend, my mom and granny went shopping with me :) We had fun going to thrift and consignment shops around town. When it was time for lunch, Ed met us at a locally owned restaurant, Roseanne's. She always has lovely home cooked foods at great prices. As we were leaving, Ed spotted a sign for Taco Soup, so I figured I would give it a go.

Ingredients:
1/2 lb 91/9 ground turkey, browned
1 1.25oz packet of taco seasoning
1 cup water
1 14.5oz can Diced Chili Tomatoes (or regular diced tomatoes with some chili powder mixed in)
1 10oz can Rotel Mexican Lime and Cilantro Tomatoes.

Brown Turkey in a deep skillet. Mix in remaining ingredients, stirring well to combine. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat, cooking for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Have a bowl, top some cornbread, or dip some chips in for a yummy meal!

Depending on how you are going to serve it up:
Serves 4 at 4 PointsPlus each
Serves 8 at 2 PointsPlus each

PS and for your viewing pleasure, one of the great finds from the thrift stores :)

It's a good thing he loves me!! :)

Turkey Greenbean Casserole

My good friend Jenny, over at Penny Pincher Jenny,  posted a recipe for Stove Top Casserole. I didn't have all of the ingredients she has, so I improved. I haven't eaten any, but Ed is taking it to work with him for dinner and is very pleased :) It is a good thing because he has another day left to eat it ;)

Ingredients:
1 14.5 oz can French Cut Green Beans
1 lb 91/9 ground turkey
1 packet Lipton Recipe Secrets Onion Soup Mix
1 box Betty Crocker Homestyle Chicken Stuffing
1/4 cup 2% shredded cheese blend.


Preheat oven to 350. Brown ground turkey in skillet. While turkey is browning, pour can of green beans into a mixing bowl and stir in the packet of the onion soup mix. Once the turkey is fully cooked, drain the liquid out of the green bean mixture, reserving for later use, and mix the green beans in with the ground turkey. (if you are worried about sodium content you can use more water and less bean juice, your call) Cook until green beans are heated through. Spray 9x13 pan with cooking spray and spread the dry stuffing mix evenly over the bottom. Top with the ground turkey and green beans. Measure reserved liquid and add enough water to make a total of 1 1/2 cup liquid. Drizzle over the top of the casserole as evenly as possible. Top with shredded cheese. Cover with foil and bake for about 30 minutes or until heated through.

Depending on your hunger level :)
Makes 4 servings @ 10 PointsPlus each
Makes 6 servings @ 6 PointsPlus each
Makes 8 servings @ 5 PointsPlus each

Thank you for the great idea Twinny!

Tomato Basil Turkey Burgers

We had a coupon from some free Boca burgers a while back. Ed tried them and liked them, so this is our MEAT version of their tomato basil burger.
Recipe adapted from Food.com

2 lbs ground turkey 91/9 Butterball
1/3 cup Italian bread crumbs
1 1/2 tsp garlic salt and pepper
1 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp onion powder
2/3 cup Italian Diced tomatoes, drained well and diced finely
2 tsp light BBQ sauce (original recipe calls for brushing on the cooking burgers, but I didn't read that well and mixed it in with the meat mix)

Preheat grill or oven broiler. (If cooking in oven, make sure you have some place for the juices to go, other than the bottom of your stove!) Combine all above ingredients. Form Patties (we made 9) Grill or broil for 6-8 minutes on each side or until cooked through.

I didn't eat any of these, but Ed said they were good. YAY :D

9 Servings @ 4 PPV each

Grilled Steakhouse Meatloaf

I LOVE Beth and Michelle over at Fare Necessities !!! When I saw Beth's Recipe for Steakhouse Meatloaf, I knew I had to try it. This is my take on her recipe <3

Ingredients:
1 lb ground turkey
3 strips turkey bacon, cubed and cooked
15 saltine crackers crushed (about 2/3 cup)
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic onion seasoning
1 teaspoon steak seasoning ( I used Spicy Montreal Steak Seasoning by McCormick)
1 tablespoon onion flakes ( or if you have a real onion, you can do what Beth does!)
a few drops of water
2 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
Topping Sauce:
2 tablespoons BBQ sauce
1 tablespoons Ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire


Preheat grill to 400ish. (cooking using indirect heat, so try and get your heat on one side of the grill so you can put your meatloaf on the other side!)
=)
In a microwave safe bowl, heat onion flakes and water for about 20 seconds.
Mix all ingredients together, except the topping sauce ingredients.
On a sheet of foil that has been sprayed with PAM, form your meatloaf.
Cook over indirect heat for about 25 minutes, rotate meatloaf
At 30-35 minutes, mix topping sauce together and top meatloaf
40-45 minutes you should be done, check the internal temp with your food thermometer!

This turned out good, but kind of soft. I only used 10 saltines, so I upped the recipe to 15.  The ground turkey always turns out so much more moist than the beef and I didn't take that in to consideration.

Makes 6 servings @ 6 PPV each
Makes 5 servings @ 7 PPV each
Makes 4 servings @ 8 PPV each

I have linked up at
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Mozzarella Stuffed Turkey Burgers ( Quarter Pounder...WOOT! )

It was such a nice day for grilling and I haven't had a burger in SO long. So I decided to jump off the deep end a little with this one. Let's just roll with it. Without further adieu...

Ingredients:
1 lb 90/10 ground turkey
1 egg
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup of shredded Mozz cheese, separated in to 4- 1/8 cup (14g) portions
1/4 teaspoon black peper
1/4 teaspoon hamburger seasoning
1/2 teaspoon garlic onion seasoning
1/2 teaspoon curry powder (this gave it a sweet-ish taste, will prob skip next time!)
1/2 teaspoon dried onion flakes

Preheat grill.

Or Griddle or however you want to cook these.

mix together all of the ingredient except the cheese.

if you want to be finicky (like me) use your food scale

weigh the total of the meat and separate in to 4 even ..meatwads???? =)

form to a thin patty and fill inside of each patty with 1 part of the

reserved cheese. Fold the meat around the cheese til most is hidden.

Turkey burgers don't like my grill, they try and slide through the grates

and I AM NOT HAVING THAT!

So put some foil on your hot grill, spray with pam 

but be careful not to spray on the flames =)

cook for about 5-10 on each side until done!

FLIP!

the finished product <3

Yummy! 8 Points+ for one burger. Totally worth it!

Linked at: Hunk of Meat Mondays, Recipe of the Week: Ingredient CHEESE!, Recipes for the Grill